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100			_aAlbert, David Z., _91644793 _eauthor
245			_aA guess at the riddle : _bessays on the physical underpinnings of quantum mechanics / _cDavid Z Albert.
260			_aLondon : _bHarvard University Press, _c2023.
520			_a"A century ago, a brilliant circle of physicists around Niels Bohr argued that the search for an objective, realistic, and mechanical picture of the inner workings of the atom―the kind of picture that had previously been an ideal of classical physics―was doomed to fail. Today, there is widespread agreement among philosophers and physicists that those arguments were wrong. However, the question of what that picture might look like, and how it might fit into a comprehensive picture of physical reality, remains unsettled. In A Guess at the Riddle, philosopher David Z Albert argues that the distinctively strange features of quantum mechanics begin to make sense once we conceive of the wave function, vibrating and evolving in high-dimensional space, as the concrete, fundamental physical “stuff” of the universe. Starting with simple mechanical models, Albert methodically constructs the defining features of quantum mechanics from scratch. He shows how the entire history of our familiar, three-dimensional universe can be discerned in the wave function’s intricate pattern of ripples and whorls. A major new work in the foundations of physics, A Guess at the Riddle is poised to transform our understanding of the basic architecture of the universe."--
650			_aQuantum theory _931246
650			_aPhysical laws _9823694
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